Works include the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney’s Tarzan. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the most produced living American opera librettist, whose works have been honored with two Grammy Awards.

Two-time Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee who works in movies, theater and television. Her new two-character play, The Garden, a commission of the LaJolla Playhouse, has productions scheduled in 2021 at both Baltimore Center Stage and The LaJolla Playhouse. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and performed at regional theatres around the country and audio versions are available at Audible.com.

A sought-after New York vocalist and Grammy winner who has performed on some of the world’s finest concert stages including Radio City Music Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall. He has appeared on and off-Broadway starring in productions like the cultural phenomenon Hamilton (original Broadway company), Disney’s The Lion King, Green Day’s American Idiot, and the U.S. Premier of Bob Dylan’s Girl From the North Country.

AFECT was formed in June 2020 by Karen Olivo and Eden Espinosa on the heels of continued violence and injustice against Black, Indigenous People of Color. Conversations were started in response to the racism that is prevalent in the American theater and it came to light that prominent Broadway names had repeatedly contributed to political candidates and movements that directly contradict the ideals of many artists in the industry. Armed with this knowledge, Olivo and Espinosa vowed to withhold their artistic services from “any theatre, company, or persons who would knowingly fund organizations that perpetuate inequality”.

Triple-crown winner of the 2019 awards season, having won the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Awards for best featured actor in a musical for his critically acclaimed performance as Hermes in Hadestown. In a career spanning fifty-one years, he has distinguished himself as an unparalleled actor, director, and educator, receiving in 2018 the 8th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Legend Award, and the 33rd Annual Bob Harrington Life Achievement Bistro Award. He can next be seen as Gavin Plimsoll in Charles Busch’s new film, The Sixth Reel.

Actor, writer, director, composer, and playwright. He has written for television’s Fraggle Rock, and for theater: Polkadots, Chicken and Biscuits, and Five Points. He has performed on Broadway in Beautiful and The Book of Mormon and is also the founder of The Next Wave Initiative, a scholarship program dedicated to supporting the future of Black Theater artists.

Actor, playwright, and autobiographical performer based in New York. His acclaimed solo play Hi, Are You Single? was presented in The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and continues to tour the country.

Best known for her portrayal of Eliza Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton – and the 2020 Disney+ film of the live stage recording – for which she was nominated for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Notably, she originated three leading roles on Broadway at the same time: Hamilton, Amélie and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.

Actress, director, and Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

New York Times critic whose arts and entertainment journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vulture, Mashable, American Theatre, and more.